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The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

The GOP is a fucking disgrace.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

Consistently wrong since 2002

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

Come on, man.

The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

T R E 4 5 O N

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

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You are here: Home / Music / Saturday Morning Open Thread

Saturday Morning Open Thread

by Anne Laurie|  February 26, 20118:01 am| 26 Comments

This post is in: Music, Nixonland, Open Threads

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Best wishes and stout companions to all attending today’s solidarity rallies, and condolences to those kept away by inclement weather and the myriad other irritations of daily life.
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As a reminder, this week’s book discussion of NIXONLAND involves Chapters Eight and Nine, a mere thirty pages. Come join the conversation Sunday at 4pm EST, and still have plenty of time to get ready for Oscar-watching.
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And if you want something shorter to read over brunch, may I recommend Dahlia Lithwick’s Slate post on “The Case of the Poisoned Lover“?

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  1. 1.

    liberal

    February 26, 2011 at 8:27 am

    _Wash Post_ front page story sez we might have dodged a bullet on guv shutdown. Haven’t read it yet though…

  2. 2.

    Mike Kay (Chief of Staff)

    February 26, 2011 at 8:31 am

    The shirtless Congressman who recently resigned over trolling for chicks on craiglist – well, Gawker just discovered he had posted ads looking for Tranny sex.

    http://gawker.com/#!5769037/the-craigslist-congressman-and-the-crossdressing-prostitute

    You guys in upstate new york are something else.

  3. 3.

    jwb

    February 26, 2011 at 8:32 am

    @liberal: It’s just two weeks. Still, it will be an interesting test as to whether Boehner has any control over his caucus at all.

  4. 4.

    liberal

    February 26, 2011 at 8:33 am

    Here’s the article on gov shutdown. Only a short extn but the authors claim it bodes well. Whatever.

  5. 5.

    mai naem

    February 26, 2011 at 8:34 am

    @Mike Kay (Chief of Staff): He posted ads in the auto section wanting to have sex with a transmission? Okay, I don’t understand this at all.

  6. 6.

    Mike Kay (Chief of Staff)

    February 26, 2011 at 8:34 am

    @liberal:

    The threat of a government shutdown receded Friday, as Senate Democrats tentatively embraced a Republican plan to immediately cut $4 billion in federal spending by targeting programs that President Obama has already marked for elimination.

    Oh, oh. The teaparty ain’t gonna be happy over Boehner caving to the Kenyan President’s outline.

  7. 7.

    liberal

    February 26, 2011 at 8:34 am

    @Mike Kay (Chief of Staff):

    You guys in upstate new york are something else.

    Would that more Rethuglicans busied themselves looking for tranny sex.

    Besides, upstate NY this time of year…probably not much else to do.

  8. 8.

    Mike Kay (Chief of Staff)

    February 26, 2011 at 8:35 am

    I gotta feeling Goldman Sachs investors must of made a bunch of calls to Boehner saying don’t fuck with GDP.

  9. 9.

    liberal

    February 26, 2011 at 8:36 am

    @Mike Kay (Chief of Staff):
    I don’t quite understand the political calculus. I realize that the Rethugs probably don’t want a repeat of Gingrich vs Clinton, but there’s no purely “algorithmic” way to assign blame for a shutdown given the division of government.

    I guess the assumption/hope is that swing voters would blame the Rethugs because of an instinct that they’re overreaching.

  10. 10.

    Mike Kay (Chief of Staff)

    February 26, 2011 at 8:45 am

    @liberal: not only over reaching, but polls consistently and overwhelming say Obama has reached out to the other side and the GOP hasn’t.

    If they had used different rhetoric, like “we look forward to working with the president, we are unafraid of compromise, we we put country first over party politics” they could have set up expectations and then broken from the table and falsely blamed the white house for being partisan. But they made such a big deal about “no compromises”, that they “would not negotiate with the president”, that they painted themselves into a corner.

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    phx

    February 26, 2011 at 8:46 am

    @Mike Kay – Thanks. We try very hard in upstate NY. And @liberal: from December to March trolling for trannies is pretty openly tolerated.

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    Boudica

    February 26, 2011 at 8:51 am

    Interesting take on King’s Speech vs Social Network for Oscar from Timothy Egan. In reading the part about Zuckerberg, I was reminded of Nixon.

    What is it with these guys who work so hard to be recognized by “their betters” and end up such jerks? Do they become jerks from their resentment because they know they’re smarter than these people who won’t let them join their clubs, or are they jerks to start with and perhaps that has something to do with why they can’t join the clubs in the first place?

  13. 13.

    piratedan

    February 26, 2011 at 8:59 am

    for all of you Browncoats out there, this little nugget from the folks over at Screen Rant:

    http://screenrant.com/nathan-fillion-buy-firefly-mcrid-102683/

  14. 14.

    Mike Kay (Chief of Staff)

    February 26, 2011 at 9:00 am

    @Boudica: those elitists are really annoying.

    Maybe you’ve seen the movie “A Civil Action” where the plaintiff’s attorney meets the CEO of WR Grace at the Harvard club in Manhattan and the CEO proceeds to put Travolta’s character down because he only went to Cornell.

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    El Cid

    February 26, 2011 at 9:04 am

    I guess the last shred of conservative love for Robert Gates is gone.

    “The odds of repeating another Afghanistan or Iraq — invading, pacifying, and administering a large third world country — may be low,” Gates said.
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    “In my opinion, any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should ‘have his head examined,’ as General MacArthur so delicately put it,” Gates said.
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    Douglas MacArthur, the World War II hero of the Pacific campaign, made the comment at a meeting with then-president John F. Kennedy in 1961 regarding US military intervention in mainland Asia.

    The right’s going to be even further pissed that the holy figure of Douglas MacArthur was invoked for such a hippie comment. So I’d guess.

    Problem is, the right did examine Rumsfeld’s / Cheney’s / Bush Jr’s heads, and they loved everything they were doing. In the latter case, the right’s complaint was that Bush Jr. was far too timid and librul.

    Up until Iraq really turned into the chaos it was once we destroyed their nation-state. I mean, until THE SURGE (hallowed be its name) fixed everything. Don’t CUT & RUN!

  16. 16.

    Mike Kay (Chief of Staff)

    February 26, 2011 at 9:07 am

    @Boudica:

    Do they become jerks from their resentment because they know they’re smarter than these people who won’t let them join their clubs, or are they jerks to start with and perhaps that has something to do with why they can’t join the clubs in the first place?

    My experience is that most of the wealthy students are jerks. the brainiacs who come from the middle and lower classes can be jerks, because let’s admit it, a lot of brainiacs are socially awkward, which leads intentional and unintentional jerkyness, but students from the mid and lower classes are simply in awe at being in exclusive setting, and to busy trying to succeed to care (they have to be, they don’t have a trust fund to fall back on).

  17. 17.

    Cat Lady

    February 26, 2011 at 9:14 am

    @El Cid:

    The army’s been all used up. When Gates says the same thing about the air force and navy, I’ll start looking for the Four Horsemen.

  18. 18.

    Commenting at Ballon Juice since 1937

    February 26, 2011 at 9:18 am

    I found an awesome comment over at HP:

    “The A&P in Cold Water Hollow is getting shut down because theres a Sams Club opened down in Starkevill­e. Its communnism no matter how you want to see it. Obama not making it any better with his buddys at Acorn “

  19. 19.

    El Cid

    February 26, 2011 at 9:20 am

    @Cat Lady: I don’t think that will happen, because the notion would not be that air and sea forces would as now be bound to an ongoing occupation — wait, I’m sorry, democracy building effort — but do their routine fire & forget. Particularly as drones become more like fighter planes in their attack ability, and more like tiny R/C aircraft (I’m not betting on the itty bitty ones) for surveillance.

  20. 20.

    El Cid

    February 26, 2011 at 9:27 am

    Uh oh. Looks like big banks are going to be slapped with another sternly worded letter.

    Three of the nation’s largest banks said Friday that they expect to be sanctioned by the U.S. government for their foreclosure practices, securities filings show.
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    The disclosures come on the heels of reports federal regulators are nearing a multi-billion dollar deal to settle allegations that the biggest banks abused borrowers and illegally foreclosed on homes.
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    The months-long federal probe found significant and widespread deficiencies in how firms service home loans, which involves collecting payments, modifying delinquent loans, and foreclosing on borrowers upon default.
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    A “small number” of foreclosures should not have occurred, a top bank regulator told a Senate committee last week after his agency surveyed less than 3,000 loan files.

    It’s really worth hoping that not only would fines / settlement be agreed to, but actually enforced so as to be paid.

    I’m sure another screaming session about how Obama is anti-bidness and doesn’t understand how our brilliant bidness leaders are unable to act with the brilliantness they need with such an insult from our President.

  21. 21.

    Wilson Heath

    February 26, 2011 at 9:35 am

    Any suggestions on a good blogging platform to start a little word heap on? Is it FYWP or are there better ideas?

  22. 22.

    Svensker

    February 26, 2011 at 9:56 am

    Annie Laurie, love the vid, especially the kids at the beginning nervously looking to see whether they are supposed to start yet. It took me a while to realize that the crumpled up biscuit on their shirts was the white cockade… (me Sco-ish ancestor would be whurrrrrling).

  23. 23.

    burnspbesq

    February 26, 2011 at 10:03 am

    in this morning’s times, the estimable Joe Nocera explains the lack of criminal prosecutions of senior financial sector executives. Interesting counterpoint to Taibbi’s latest rant.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/26/business/economy/26nocera.html?hp

  24. 24.

    Mike Kay (Chief of Staff)

    February 26, 2011 at 10:28 am

    @burnspbesq: Forget it Jake, it’s Chinatown.

  25. 25.

    Alison

    February 26, 2011 at 10:59 am

    @El Cid: I saw the Gates statement yesterday and was happy he said it. Of course, all I could picture was Wallace Shawn.

  26. 26.

    James E Powell

    February 26, 2011 at 7:16 pm

    @Mike Kay (Chief of Staff):

    As soon as any person of any means or background decides that income and status are the most important things, that person becomes an asshole.

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